#lace

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#benefit #both #central #exchange #fact

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#corner #existence #first #first time #had

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#context #current #east #east asian #economies

The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#any #case #changes #countries #country

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#am #been #business #changes #decades

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#enter #find #just #key #moment

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#back #bother #doors #elevators #entrances

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage. ↗

— Frank Langella

#safest #stage #world